3 Superfoods That Support Mitochondrial Health with Dr. Terry Wahls

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Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Dr. Terry Wahls to discuss the top foods and lifestyle factors that support and damage our mitochondria. Dr. Wahls shares how she healed herself from secondary progressive multiple sclerosis using the principles of Functional Medicine.

Dr. Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine certified practitioner and clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol and the cookbook The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life. She has conducted several clinical trials, coauthored 24 scientific publications, and is pioneering a way to make her protocol more accessible by making it available online to the public. 

In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Wahls talk about the damage processed foods cause for people’s health and the environment. They discuss Dr. Wahls’ story, and how The Wahls Protocol inspired clinical research that has helped thousands of people reclaim their health. 

In this episode, we dive into: 

- The top three superfoods that Dr. Wahls uses regularly and includes in her Wahls Protocol to supercharge mitochondrial health (2:14)

- The top three foods that are damaging our mitochondrial health (19:10)

- The role sugar plays in our mitochondrial health (26:10)

- Lifestyle factors that help and hurt our mitochondria (27:46)

- How and what toxins poison our mitochondria (31:36)

- Dr. Wahls’ illness and how she discovered the role her mitochondria played (50:47)

- The biggest changes Dr. Wahls made to her diet on her healing journey (1:08:26)

- Remarkable stories of patients following the Wahls Protocol (1:23:21)

- Who might not benefit from eating plant fiber (1:40:10)

Also mentioned in this episode:

The Wahls Protocol

Bristol Stool Chart

For more on Dr. Wahls, follow her on Instagram @drterrywahls and through her website, terrywahls.com.

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